(I). Frances Heywood," b. 1772-73, m. (1) Read, (2) about 1800 James Hewitt, then Quartermaster 10th Light Dragoons, afterwards Lieut. (James Waller Hewett) 1st Foot. She is said to have been daughter of either George III or his brother the Duke of Gloucester. She died at Belfast in 1846 aged 73. See 12 S. viii. 28; and clii. 99. See (II). Edward Doyle, b. 1776-77, d. 1795 aged 18. monument in All Saints church, Colchester. He passed as son of Joseph Doyle of Stratford-le-Bow, by Catherine, dau. of William Smythies of Colchester, surgeon; but his father is said to have been George III. (III). Robert Wyndham Lathrop Murray, otherwise Robert William Felton Lathropp, b. 1777, bapt. 1780 at S. Maryle-Bone, d. 1850. Said to have been son of George III by probably a lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte. See Hist. of the Families of Skeet, Murray .', London, 1906, 179 pages, numbered 9902. r. 6 in Brit. Mus. Cat. (IV.) H.R.H. Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, niece of George III, in her will or codicil of 1843, leaves £100 to her godson my brother's eldest son William Frederick of the 3rd Canadian Rifle RegiBut her only brother, the Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834, who m. his cousin Mary, dau. of George III, is said to have ment. died issueless. preaching tours in his own country and in Europe. His Journal was published in 1837, and in 1925, Francis R. Taylor, a Philadelphia lawyer, brought out a Life, based on the original manuscript of Savery's travels and supplied with historical sidelights of great value. This volume of nearly 500 pages can be purchased at the Friends' Book Centre, Euston Road, N.W.1 (opposite Euston Station) or consulted in the headquarters of the Society of Friends. Friends' Library on the same premises-the NORMAN PENNEY. Boscombe, Hants. " Manifold and "Axe" are more difficult; each is ten miles from the Five Towns, and. they may be meant for the same place. Manifold lands," and that implies some town to the " is the metropolis of the moornorth or east. As a matter of fact, the real Manifold Valley, on the east, is a Five Towns pleasure resort-not a town. 66 Axe," also on the moors, is said in The Price of Love to be west of Hanbridge; but there are no moors in that direction. miles to the north-east, on Leek, about nine the Derbyshire border, and duly "north-east of Toft End," is the most likely original of this town from which Sophia Barnes ran away to marry Gerald Scales. Sneyd "Toft End," it may be added, is Green, not far to the east of Cobridge." A. L. Cox. ANOTHER MEMORIAL TO CAPTAIN TOPHER (clii. 207, 249).-I am pleased to COOK: CAPT. WILLIAM CHRISlet Commander JOHN A. RUPERT-JONES have what information I possess about Capt. William Christopher. He was the son of John Christopher of Norton-on-Tees, and Margaret, his wife, who belonged to an old Durham family named Wilkinson. born in 1734 and married in 1765 Ann, third daughter of William Tatham, of Little Stainton, by Alice, second daughter of He was WILLIAM SAVERY'S JOURNAL OF William Raisbeck and Esther, his wife, A VISIT TO IRELAND IN 1797-8' (clii. 245).-William Savery (1750-1804) was an inhabitant of Philadelphia and is said to have descended from a Huguenot family which left France at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He travelled on daughter of the Rev. Thomas Rudd, Rector of Long Newton. The Christopher family owned the Grangefield Estate, on which the Stockton Cricket Ground is now situated. In addition, the family owned property in the parish of Norton. Also the Christophers had been associated with Co. Durham since the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Their Stockton mansion, now the Vicarage House, is the last town residence which remains intact in High Street. Capt. Christopher died at Newcastle, whither he had gone for medical advice, on Nov. 2, 1797, at the age of 68, and was buried at Norton. There is a tablet in the south transept of Norton Church which bears the family arms, to the memory of William Christopher, his mother, wife, and eldest son John, who married in 1796 Dorothy, daughter of Crosier Surtees, of Redworth Hall, Co. Durham, and was grandfather of Mary Dorothy, Lady Burdett of Fore mark. Heaviside, History of Stockton-on-Tees,' is my authority for saying that Capt. Christopher was a companion of Capt. Cook in his third and last voyage round the world, and he bases his statement on the three volume book of Cook's Voyages. In addition to the rails mentioned (ante p. 207) the fine staircase balustrade in the Stockton mansion is said to have been made of the same drift oak. a year or so later. a Capt. Christopher commanded the Hudson Bay Co.'s sloop Churchill in 1761 on voyage of discovery and sailed up Chesterfield's inlet. He also examined Pistol Bay In 1783, when La Perouse attacked the Company's factories, two of their ships, richly laden with oil, furs, etc., were commanded respectively by Capt. Christopher and Capt. Jonathan Fowler, another Stocktonian. Capt. Christopher's ship, the Seahorse, succeeded in escaping from the frigate sent by La Perouse to effect its capture. Capt. Fowler emulated his townsman's example and also got safely away with his vessel and cargo. Fordyce, 'History of Durham,' and Heaviside have been utilised for the above. H. ASKEW. eleventh century without a break save during the war years. The break there was due, I believe, to "D.O.R.A. ": the ringing was resumed about 1919. D. S. DRAKE. NU JURSERY RHYME WANTED (clii. 226).-My So letters they write, their friends to invite To their house in Great Camomile Street. Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes' (Routledge, 1895). I have seen a version beginning: Doctor Pill blister and Betsy, etc. This is more congruent with the address in the last line. I have also faint memory of a second stanza, all that I can remember of it being:For it's always our fate To be. late, : When at (to) Dr. Pillblister's engaged. I hope some one will be able to complete this lyric. S. AUTHOR WANTED (clii. 245). The quota Petronius (Sat., 48, at the end of the chaption given by G.S.G. is a translation of ter): Nam Sibyllam quidem [Cumis] ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα, τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: drolaveiv béλw. The English rendering is prefixed to the following lines by D. G. Rossetti, one of the Versicles and Fragments' in vol. i. p. 378. of his Collected Works (1890): "I saw the Sibyl at Cumae, (One said) "with mine own eye. She hung in a cage, and read her rune To all the passers-by. Said the boys, 'What wouldst thou, Sibyl?' She answered, I would die '. G.S.G. rightly calls attention to the unpleas ing misspelling Sybil. But it is a comfort to find the correct spelling in Rossetti's Works.' It is curious that though the English version prefixed to the verses translates ampulla by jar" ("flask "bottle or would have been better), Rossetti puts the Sibyl in a cage. Ampelius, Liber memorialis,' viii. 16, (quoted in W. D. Lowe's edition of the Cena Trimalchionis) mentions a cavea ferrea rotunda in qua conclusa Sibylla dicitur "; but the 'bottle is more realistic evidence that we which a human being is granted immortality, have here a form of the Tithonus legend, in but doomed to shrink and wither, and pray in vain for death. See the very interesting references in Lowe's book. The word Cumis was rejected by Friedlaender as incompatible with the view, which he maintains with strong arguments, that Cumae is the scene of the banquet at which the tale is told. EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth. 2 T The Library. List of the Officers of the Bengal Army, 1758— 1834. Part I, A-C. Alphabetically arranged and annotated with biographical and genealogical notices by Major V. C. P. Hodsɔn. (Constable, £1 is.). E Alphabetical List of the Officers of the THE Bengal Army, compiled by Dodwell and Orme, Miles, and published by Longman, excellent in its clearness and the ease with which the facts offered can be mastered. Each entry is divided into blocks, of which the first (indented) gives the officer's military career, and the next his parentage, with other genealogical particulars; a full entry com12 prises also a block recording the officer's services, and another setting out references to him to be found in the usual genealogical and biographical authorities, or in other accessible places frequented by the student. The present volume is the first of four parts, containing names A-C (about 1,520 officers) and also an introduction, a bibliography, and a chronological list of all the campaigns, actions, and sieges in which the Bengal Army bore a part up to 1868. The starting-point is taken in 1758 (not as in Dodwell and Miles's list in 1760) because a MS. Bengal Army List, dated June of the former year, has been found among the Orme MSS. in the India Office, and this is believed to be the earliest complete list of Bengal officers in existence. tory of the Bengal Army, from 1756 to 1858. He recommends Cardew's Sketch of the Bengal Native Army' as still the best book by which to fit these individual careers into their places in the progress of events. At the same time his introduction itself supplies succinctly a great amount of information, particularly on details of the organisation and administration of the Bengal Army. There occur here a few curious particulars, such as titles of rank now obsolete, or the "Select Picket," a company formed of Gentlemen Cadets for whom on their first arrival from Europe there were no vacancies as Ensigns, who carried arms like private soldiers, had their post on the right field, and came highly to distinguish themof the advanced guard of the army in the elves. Writing for readers of N. & Q.' there is no need to point out the great value of this compilation. Its full worth can be known only through the frequent test of practical use, but so far as a reviewer's examination can eveal it, the excellence of the execution in no way falls behind the importance of the undertaking. A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama, 1750-1800. By Allardyce Nicoll. (Cambridge University Press. 16s. net.). THE great bulk of this work is necessarily taken up with short descriptions and criticisms of numerous individual plays, whereby it has largely the charcter of a reference bookof the greatest use to the student, but not often supplying those illuminating ideas, or that ordered survey of a close-packed field of information which are the joy of the general reader. It could not be otherwise; moreover, it is not exclusively so. The second half of the eighteenth century, though Goldsmith and Sheridan have no real rivals among their contemporaries, produced numbers of plays of a not inconsiderable merit. In our ears, to make amends for loss of much that contemporaries admired in them, they possess at any rate the charm of Major Hodson concludes his preface by say-eightheenth century diction. In them, too, we ing that those who expect to find much human interst in these pages are foredoomed to disappointment. He underrates, we think, this aspect of the compilation. The names extend over a wide social range, and while many arrest attention by their familiarity, others arrest it by novelty. A certain amount of biographical circumstance also appears. An East India cadetship formed a promising opening for a young man's career; and Major Hodson suggests with some show of probability that the procuring of such an opportunity for his tradesman's son was sometimes method of settling an account resorted to, and to their mutual satisfaction, by a patron short of ready cash. These cadetships likewise proved of great convenience to men who, for whatever reason, were better out of England than in it-men on whom justice looked askance, or illegitimate sons. This body of officers numbers nearly 7,000, and, as Major Hodson says, their personal history is the his a see part of the more popular phase of the conflict between Classic and Romantic, and some reflection. during the last decade of the century, of the literary and intellectual re-action to the principles and events of the French Revolution. The influence of Germany is perhaps, among single topics, that which has the greatest interest. Professor Nicoll gives us some good pages on the immense vogue of private theatricals-a subject which might furnish both instruction and amusement in a more extended study, and which illustrates German influence from more than one point of view. Not altogether unconnected with this is the development of a taste for " poetic " dramaproductions intended to be read, not acted, many of which were translations from German plays, considered, in their English rendering unfit for playing. Poets thus were stimulated to produce pieces of a similar character, not aimed, that is, at representation; and such works as these owed to Germany some restora tion of that true insight into tragedy, of that power of tragic emotion which the eighteenth century in England had largely lost. The drama of this fifty years is concerned, as it has hardly been before or since, with the rousaccount of sentimentalism and its works forms the most fundamentally useful part of the book, though it would perhaps have turned out even better if it had been accompanied with a little more discussion of sentimentalism itself. True, such discussion is to be found elsewhere: but Professor Nicoll has studied its manifestations in drama with a closeness and over a breadth of field which must lend any pronouncement of his upon the subject unusual weight and value. A handlist of the plays of these fifty years, running to 164 pages, lays the student under yet further obligation to him. The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney. Vol. IV. Arcadia: the original version now for the first time printed. Edited by Albert Feuillerat. (Cambridge University Press. 12s. 6d. net.). ing of emotion of the tearful order, anus. a Arcadia' as published in 1590 was THE Ahich had undergone much revision; an earlier form of it, inferior to the later both in skill and in thought, had been circulated in manuscript among the friends of Sir Philip Sidney. This had for centuries been lost to sight until in 1907 two copies of it were found and bought by the late Bertram Dobell. At the present moment five copies are known: two at Oxford in the Bodleian and at Queen's College: one in Mr. Henry E. Huntington's collection at San Marino, California; one in the British Museum, and the fifth, the Clifford MS., the property of Mr. W. A. White of New York. This last is the basis of the edition before us, chosen because of its careful sixteenth century English script, and because of its virtual inaccessibility otherwise to European students. It is known as the Clifford MS. from the names "Alexander Clifforde and Willm Clyforde " scribbled upon some of its leaves, and we are bidden to note that one of the several other وو names so scribbled is " Mountgomrey," which cannot but recall the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Philip Sidney's nephew, who married Anne Clifford. The MS. contains a poem never printed before, which Prof. Feuillerat gives in an appendix, as he also does a Latin letter of Sidney's which has recently been acquired by the Huntingdon Library. The principal interest of this volume lies, as will readily be seen, in the opportunity it affords, by comparison with the later Arcadia, for gauging Sidney's advance both writer and thinker over a period of some five years. All that the utmost care could do to present the text accurately, to note errors, and to give help towards a readier grasp of the relation between the two versions Professor Feuillerat has most satisfactorily done. as Printed and Published by the Bucks Free The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol VI, 1925. Edited for the English Association by F. S. Boas and C. H. Herford. (Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d. net). EACH year, as it widens the area of knowledge, and develops criticism and adds to the sum of literature, also makes this resumé of a year's work of greater consequence and usefulness. It is of much advantage to have all the new work in a given subject put together; to hear of books or papers one may have missed; and, in particular, to see those one has read set in their proper place among the others. The true worth of a book on any special study is not finally fixed until, besides being estimated on its own merits it has been appraised in some relation to its contemporaries. Everything, naturally, de pends on the authority who pronounces on this sort of grouped material; and the English Society has no reason for misgivings on that score. The writers of these several surveys are all such as must claim the student's respect; and they have examined and judged not only with competence and according to the required standard, but also with notice able fellow-feeling for the worker whom they to be uncriticise even where constrained favourable. Professor Herford writes on Criticism (General Literary History and works); Professor Tolkien 011 Philology (General works); Professor Gordon on Old English Studies; Miss Dorothy Everett on Renaissance; Sir E. K. Chambers on Shakes Middle English; Dr. A. W. Reed peare; Dr. Boas on Elizabethan Drama: Professor Grierson and Mr. A. M. 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